Infants' perception of rhythm and tempo in unimodal and multimodal stimulation: A developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis
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Research has demonstrated that young infants can detect a change in the tempo and the rhythm of an event when they experience the event bimodally (audiovisually), but not when they experience it unimodally (acoustically or visually). According to Bahrick and Lickliter (2000, 2002), intersensory redundancy available in bimodal, but not in unimodal, stimulation directs attention to the amodal properties of events in early development. Later in development, as infants become more experienced perceivers, attention becomes more flexible and can be directed toward amodal properties in unimodal and bimodal stimulation. The present study tested this developmental hypothesis by assessing the ability of older, more perceptually experienced infants to discriminate the tempo or rhythm of an event, using procedures identical to those in prior studies. The results indicated that older infants can detect a change in the rhythm and the tempo of an event following both bimodal (audiovisual) and unimodal (visual) stimulation. These results provide further support for the intersensory redundancy hypothesis and are consistent with a pattern of increasing specificity in perceptual development.
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Some multisensory abilities are present from early infancy, but children do not integrate information across modalities to reduce sensory uncertainty until age ≥8 y.
“Although some multisensory abilities are present from early infancy (6–8), in recent studies, children did not integrate information across modalities for shape discrimination, spatial localization, or detection of visual–auditory events until age ≥8 y (9–11).”
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- Lickliter, R., Bahrick, L. E., & Markham, R. (2004, May). Intersen- sory redundancy can educate attention during prenatal development. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Chicago.
- Authors
- BAHRICK, L. E., & LICKLITER, R.
- Affiliations
- Florida International University (US)
- Corresponding author
- BAHRICK, L. E.
- ORCID
- BAHRICK, L. E.
- Venue
- Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
- Published
- 2004-06-01
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 137-147
- ISSN
- 1530-7026 (ISSN-L)
- 1531-135X
- PMC
- PMC2738586
- OpenAlex
- W2077185467
- Cited by
- 104
- References
- 47
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- FWCI
- 3.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Cognitive Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Florida International University Digital Commons (Florida International University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH62225, R01 MH62226, R01MH062225, R01MH062226)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Tactile and Sensory Interactions
- Keywords
- audiovisual integration, perceptual development, attentional flexibility
- MeSH terms
- Acoustic Stimulation, Child, Child, Preschool, Discrimination Learning, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Habituation, Psychophysiologic, Humans, Infant, Male, Periodicity, Photic Stimulation, Psychological Theory
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